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01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table

Amazon.com had to do, and this was in the United States! Partnership with established logistics companies is a choice, and renting warehouse space may be possible, but building a completely captive system and investing in it would destroy... View Details

02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

partners who have and continue to work so tirelessly to help our neighbors who need the emergency food system more than ever. I have tremendous appreciation for our broader Massachusetts community that has extended their care and support, from individuals who have sewn... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

to package the maize. Masha's company warehouses the grain at the end of the process, commoditizes it, and sells it to food conglomerates like Nestlé, which uses it to make baby food and breakfast cereal sold in Nigeria and abroad. Babban... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

Science and Technology (DOST) to fast-track a dashboard for the Inter Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-EID) and sponsored the data warehouse and data analytics needed to provide timely and accurate... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

famously standing up to Steve Jobs’s plan to eliminate Apple’s US warehouses and decentralize distribution. (The details were captured in the 1986 HBS case, “Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc.”) She and Hawkins then teamed up to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

again,” says Kempczinski. “That sort of approach doesn’t work.” But with about 2,000 US owner-operators, consensus was impossible. Unveiling the plan at the end of February in a warehouse in Chicago’s West Loop that had been transformed... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

customer. ET then went a step further, locating an aluminum extruder in China that would manufacture some of the parts used in the panels. “We ship in 48 hours from our Singapore partner’s warehouse to the customer’s facility,” Sharpe... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

28 Feb 2025
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Joy to the World

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

have increased tremendously through the use of information technology," Harad notes. He points out that in the office products distribution business, order fulfillment (30,000 40,000 individual orders per day at peak ordering time), package delivery, and View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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